PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Materialism, Thought Experiment
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Chapters part 1 11, 13-16 = most important. Materialism = everything that falls into universe is matter, he denies substance like the mind or platonic forms (only matter exists) Hobbes is a materialist, religious people won"t like him because he be lives in matter, not mystical forces or anything of that sort. Used theorems to show how things like together and prove his points. Reason = everything has a name you can give to it and once you know the definitions of things, you can put it together and . ; although we can have validity with hobbes, you can"t have soundness. Air = make a mistake in addition and subtraction. Absurdity = when you put two words to together that don"t go with one another (ex. Passions = wants and desires, you get one thing and want the next etc. Hobbes thinks happiness is getting the most things in life.
